Indeed, Data. The boot time could be many tads better. It is quite slow. However, I can explain... I put the Thinkpad into diagnostics mode in the BIOS Setup Utility to do an extended POST which stands for Power On Self Test, if any readers are curious.

This way I could test out the new RAM chip upgrade. And, I get a two and a half minute video for show off the 2GB RAM. Luckily, diagnostics mode is easily disabled in the BIOS Setup Utility. Yes, that is unusual, the text displayed on the screen. I hope the US Govt doesn't come knocking at my door for breaking the restriction on RAM.

This Thinkpad, is one of the last models manufactured by IBM, before they sold their PC division to China. I enjoy buying products from China. The delivery may take longer, but the price, quality and customer service is excellent, in my experience. It is funny how Memory Companies advertise the Maximum Memory upgrade for an IBM Thinkpad A31 is 1024MB.

Not to long ago I did some work on my cousins Dell Omniplex, rather old at the time. I took out the hard drive and put in an older SSD with win 10 on it, boot time is 17 sec. Still needs a little more work but she's in Florida.Carl2

Because of this thread I took a look at Newegg for older computers, there are very many core 2 duo's, going to newer more powerful Intel I 7's you have a very wide choice. I limited my looking to the desktops seems like it would be easier to work on them because of space. I've only bought Desktops so I can't say much about the laptops, I'd guess win 10 has some min requirements but if these are met win 10 should install.Carl2

Laptops are just crunched together more, and have more screws sometimes than desktops.Wow, seems NewEgg has some refurbished laptops i3, i5 for about $100 bucks. No recommendation intended here. Just surprising to see them priced that low.

Funny you should make an allusion to that. I was just about to refer to how amusing this laptop was, with 512 megabytes of random access memory... Waiting for it to finish processing was slow, but steady. Now, with four times what it was originally designed for (two gigabytes of random access memory)... Things are even more interesting.

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